Scott Adams
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Dogbert begins his new career as a consultant, putting Pointy-Haired Boss's methods under the microscope in this 34th Dilbert comic strip collection.
Cartoonist Scott Adams affectionately ridicules inept office colleagues—those coworkers behind the pointless projects, interminable meetings, and ill-conceived "downsizings"—in this thematically linked collection of Dilbert comic strips.
Dilbert, the...
Cartoonist Scott Adams affectionately ridicules inept office colleagues—those coworkers behind the pointless projects, interminable meetings, and ill-conceived "downsizings"—in this thematically linked collection of Dilbert comic strips.
Dilbert, the...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Dilbert creator Scott Adams offers his most personal book ever -- a funny memoir of his many failures and what they eventually taught him about success. How do you go from hapless office worker to world-famous cartoonist and bestselling author in just a few years? No career guide can answer that, and not even Scott Adams (who actually did it) can give you a road map that works for everyone. But there's a lot to learn from his personal story, and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"In Reframe Your Brain, Scott Adams, the contrarian genius behind Dilbert and author of the most influential personal success book of all time--How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big--gives you the complete operating system for lasting happiness. Are you familiar with this old saying? "All publicity is good publicity." That's a classic reframe. The quote shifts your thinking from the shame of whatever you did wrong to your probable benefit....
Author
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
In a world of TQM, reengineering, and empowered secretaries. Dilbert has become the poster boy of corporate America. Millions of office dwellers tack Scott Adams's comic strip to their walls when murdering the boss is not an acceptable option. After seventeen years of working in a cubicle and reading thousands of e-mail messages from readers who've been "downsized", "rightsized", "flattened", and put in charge of "quality teams", Scott Adams can no...
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
"In The Dilbert Future, Scott Adams turns futurist, offering a bold, compelling - and often hysterical - vision of future society." "First, the good news: Human nature won't change much; many, if not most of us, will continue to be guided by the immutable principles of stupidity, selfishness, and horniness - much as we are today, but with more advanced technology." "But there's more! Drawing on his keen grasp of human nature and social dynamics, Adams...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
f you've been on social media lately, or turned on your TV, you may have noticed a lot of dumb ideas floating around.
"We know when history will repeat and when it won't."
"We can tell the difference between evidence and coincidences."
"The simplest explanation is usually true."
Wrong, wrong, and dangerous!
If we're not careful, loserthink would have us believe that every Trump supporter is a bigoted racist, addicts should be responsible for fixing...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Scott Adams-a trained hypnotist and a lifelong student of persuasion-was one of the earliest public figures to predict Trumps win, doing so a week after Nate Silver put Trumps odds at 2 percent in his FiveThirtyEight.com blog. The mainstream media regarded Trump as a novelty and a sideshow. But Adams recognized in Trump a level of persuasion you only see once in a generation. Trump triggered massive cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias on both...
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
"I think the next wave of office design will focus on eliminating the only remaining obstacle to office productivity: your happiness. Happiness isn't a physical thing, like walls and doors. But it's closely related. Managers know that if they can eliminate all traces of happiness, the employees won't be so picky about their physical surroundings. Once you're hopelessly unhappy, you won't bother to complain if your boss rolls you up in a tight ball...